A 508 million-year-old spiky sea creature was so strange that scientists decided to name it Hallucigenia.
The ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god of death Anubis was worshipped by huge numbers of people.
Scientists have discovered a species of bat that was three times the size of any that are alive today.
The special mechanism used to hoist wild animals in to the world famous arena has now been rebuilt.
A robot from South Korea has scooped the $2 million prize for an impressive win across eight tasks.
Scientists have found what is causing billions of gallons of water to drain out within a matter of hours.
Anthropologists have unearthed the fossil remains of a human ancestor dating back 3.2 million years.
Almost all the water on the planet was, at one point, consumed and then peed out by a dinosaur.
Gao Bingguo set a new world record by engulfing his body in a swarm of bees weighing more than 109kg.
Prehistoric stone tools predating the human genus have been unearthed in a dried-up riverbed in Kenya.
A snapshot of the past has been found in the form of a bubble frozen in the Antarctic ice.
Anthropologists believe that they have identified the oldest samples of human skin ever discovered.
Astronomers have identified the most distant galaxy ever recorded at 13 billion light years away.
A 100 million-year-old predatory cockroach has been found perfectly preserved in a piece of amber.
Scientists have identified a huge void in space that measures over 1.8 billion light years across.
An extinction event known as the 'Great Dying' wiped out most of the life on Earth 251 million years ago.
After a journey of more than three billion miles the probe is expected to reach its destination in July.
A subterranean complex covering an area of 5 million square feet has been unearthed in Nevsehir.
The gargantuan reptile was related to the Titanosaurs and roamed the Earth around 100 million years ago.
A solar eclipse provided a breathtaking spectacle this morning despite predominantly cloudy weather.